Major Earthquake Strikes Dalai Lama's Hometown

The latest massive earthquake — magnitude 6.9 -- struck a remote area of western China today, a region populated mostly by Tibetans. At least 400 are dead and some 8000 are said to be injured. Professor Robert Barnett directs the Modern Tibetan Studies Program at Columbia University.

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